Word: daleyisms
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...happy family." She disappears into the kitchen and returns a moment later with a plain pink card bearing the inscription, "To the dining hall staff for cooking up all those good times! THANK YOU! Tom (Trouble) Quint and Tony (T) Brown." The manager of the Lowell House kitchen, Mrs. Daley, says, "Kids come in late and we have open house. I don't mind it, though. Some of these kids aren't as financially well-off and they can't afford to eat out." Thelma recently received an invitation to St. Louis to attend the wedding of a former House...
More likely they are misting over with dust. It is everywhere, thick as Mayor Daley's tear gas, swirling up in gritty gusts and sticking to your body paint. Alas, one major difference between the first Central Park be-in and today's is that this time there is more grass in the air than on the ground. New York City's finances, having gone the way of peace symbols and miniskirts, do not permit enough maintenance to keep the grass in the style to which Park Designer Frederick Law Olmsted's 19th century sheep were...
...Daley is seen skewering his rivals, and an occasional ally when necessary, in his long march to dominion. Kennedy depicts him often playing "the Irish warrior hanging the enemy heads on the gate...
...city within that gate, Daley's duchy, was a festival of contradictions. The mayor was a friend of labor, but he squashed a union leader when a taxi strike threatened disruption. He was an old New Dealer, but he knew how to promote business. He wanted dollars from Washington, but even when the donor was a Democratic Administration, Daley insisted that his city hall rather than alien bureaucrats control the money. He was relatively honest, but he tolerated the baksheesh habit all around him because it served the System and the System served...
Kennedy's city hall portraits and caricatures cannot be faulted. The author's implied conclusions- his four cheers for Daley's works- are far less persuasive. He accepts Daley's atavistic brand of leadership as not merely effective, but necessary. He does not pause to wonder whether having potholes filled quickly is worth dictatorship by a corrupt machine. He gives scant attention to the hallmark of successful tribalism: suppression of all weaker tribes. He seems not to recall that other cities from time to time, such as La Guardia's New York and Philadelphia during...